Ashraf Ghani

Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai (born 1949) was the President of Afghanistan from 2014, succeeding Hamid Karzai.

Biography
Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai was born to the Ahmadzai clan of the Pashtun people in Logar Province, Afghanistan, in 1949. He studied anthropology in the American University in Beirut in Lebanon and in Columbia University, and he was stranded in the United States after the Soviet-Afghan War's start in 1978. Most of the members of his clan were arrested, so he taught at the University of California in Berkely and Johns Hopkins University. In 1991, he joined the World Bank and became a politician of the new Afghanistan following the deposition of the Taliban in 2001.

After serving as Minister of Finance from 2002 to 2004, Ghani ran for the title of President of Afghanistan in 2014 against Dr. Abdullah Abdullah. After a controversial first election, the votes were run again, and Ghani was elected as the new president. On 21 September 2014, he signed a deal with Abdullah that made a unity government and a power share.